Tamar Lando, director and producer
Tamar Lando is a documentary photographer/filmmaker and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Columbia University. Her photographs of the Mimbres River Valley, NM, can be seen on her photography website here. Several images from this series were exhibited at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles, as part of the program Women in a Man's World: Filming the Modern Cowboy. Her photographs have been exhibited at the Platt-Bornstein Gallery in Los Angeles (2010) and the Stanford University Art Gallery (2004). Tamar also published photographs of jazz musicians in Los Angeles in Central Avenue Sounds (University of California Press, 1998), and Songs of the Unsung (Duke University Press, 2001). Her short film, OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN, screened at Sheffield.
judith mizrachy, producer
Judith Mizrachy is a Brooklyn-based independent producer. Her most recent film THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (dirs. Anne Alvergue/ Debra McClutchy, producing partner Beth Levison), launched on Netflix in 2022 and was nominated for a 2023 Academy Award for Best Short Documentary. Her previous film "The Booksellers"(dir. D.W. Young), a behind-the-scenes look at the rare book world, premiered at The New York Film Festival in 2019. It was released in the U.S. by Greenwich Entertainment and sold internationally by Magnolia Pictures. Mizrachy previously served as the Director of Marketing and Communications at Women Make Movies.
beth levison
Levison is an Emmy and Peabody-winning producer/director. She is also an Academy Award nominee for THE MARTHA MITCHELL EFFECT (Netflix 2022), a documentary short and her most recent producing effort (alongside producer Judith Mizrachy) that premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and tells the story of an unlikely Watergate whistleblower who was gaslighted out of history. Her previous film, "Storm Lake", which she directed/produced alongside director/DP Jerry Risius, premiered at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, won the Audience Award at AFI DOCS, and broadcast on PBS’s Independent Lens. Other producing credits include "Women in Blue" (Independent Lens, 2020), Emmy-nominated "Made in Boise" (Independent Lens, 2019), Emmy nominated "Personal Statement"(PBS, 2018), and "32 Pills" (HBO, 2017). Levison is the founder of Hazel Pictures, a co-founder of the Documentary Producers Alliance, producing faculty with the School of Visual Arts MFA program in Social Documentary Film, and a member of the Academy.
